Title: IRIX permissions Buffer overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A buffer overrun exists in the permissions program, as shipped by Silicon Graphics with the 5.x and 6.x Irix operating system. By supplying a long, well crafted buffer as the 4th argument to the program, arbitrary code can be executed as group sys.
Affected Products:
- SGI IRIX 5.0.1
- SGI IRIX 5.1.0
- SGI IRIX 5.1.1
- SGI IRIX 5.2.0
- SGI IRIX 5.3.0
- SGI IRIX 5.3.0 XFS
- SGI IRIX 6.0.0
- SGI IRIX 6.0.1
- SGI IRIX 6.0.1 XFS
- SGI IRIX 6.1.0
- SGI IRIX 6.2.0
- SGI IRIX 6.3.0
- SGI IRIX 6.4.0
References:
- Silicon Graphics Inc.: SGI Support
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